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' JL v '~ •/i~-G r ~. ~r • I ' :~ CX•RCVIT INTELLIGESC4. ~. ;: , ' EAST /NDTA TdOtiSg, Aud. t TIRE COURTofDIRECTORS ofthe UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND Trad ing to the EAST INDIES do hereby give Notice, That a Quarterly General Court of the said Company will be helfi at their House in Leadenhall-street, on WIDWZSDAY, the Septev.ther next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. JOSEPIf DART, Secretary. EAST INDIA HOUSE, SEPT. 13, 1926. E COURT ofDIRECTORS ofthe UNITED -I- COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND Trad ing tc. the EAST INDIES, do hereby g i ve N o ti ce , That the QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said CniPANY appointed to be held at this House on WZDNESDAY, tb .27th instant, is made SPECIAL, for the purpose of sub omitting for confirmation a Resolution of the General Court of ;the 21st June, approving the Resolution of the Court of Direc - tors of the 3d May last, providing that Captain Michael, of the Madras Establishment, upon his resigning the Military Service, iu order that he may continue to act as Mahratta Translator to the Tanjore Commissioners in England, in which capacity he re ceives a,Salary of 6821. 10s. per ann. shall be granted, upon the terms and conditions therein stated, a continuance of that Salary for Life: and further providing, that whenever the period sfr ai i • arrive, at which. if Captain Michael had continued in thr"'Aiiii. tag Service, he would have succeeded to the command o f a R e _ y „giment an d a s h are o f the Offleckonings, the %id Salar of 682/. 10s. per annum shall be increased from gist date to 1,0504 par 4innum for Life. Copy of the Resolution before mer;tioned, together with the Documents upon which it has, beep formed, are open for the in spection of the Proprietors at tli;,o House. JOSEPH DART, Secretary. ONE HUNDWED POUNDS REWARD. Norm AND SOUTH A3IEILICAN COFFEE.HOLISE, SEM 25, 1826. 9P •1 HE COMMITTEE o f S UBSCRIBERS to this Coffer.:-.House having had under their consideration this `morning a Letter received by the Master on Saturday last, dated Portsmouth, Sept. 22, and signed "J. Burnstead ;" and Mr. Davies having reported to The Committee the means he has taken 'to ascertain the genuitreuess of the letter by despatching a special messenger to Portsmouth, on Saturday evening, the Committee are .of opinion that th e letter is a fabrication, no such ship as the Emmelin e havin g arrived off Portsmouth, nor any such person as Mr. Bo instead who is a respectable merchant at Boston) having landed. there. Mr„ Davies having perceived on Saturday that doubts were en tertabaed of the genuineness of the letter, appears to have taken the most prompt and active measures for detecting the fabricator. ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD. Whereas a fabricated letter dated Portsmouth, Sept. 22, 1826, :and,signed " J. Bumste,ad," was on Saturday last received by the .Master of the North and Siuth American Coffee-Ho nse • this is to give notice , that One H un d re d P ounds Reward will be paid by Mr. Davies, Master of the said Coffee-House, to any person who will give information that shall lead to the discovery of the writer of the said bitten—The letter may be seen on application at the bar of the Coffee-House, &c. On Saturday the SOth, will be published, in Bvo. 2 vol. with 15 Plates,, a second Edition of PHE TRAVELS and DISCOVERIES NORTHERN and CENTRAL AFRICA. By Miami DENHAM, CAPTAIN CLAPPERTON, and the late Da. OUDNEY. Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-street. THE LAST INVITE To gain THIRTY THOUSAND POUNDS is now before you, as BY WARRANT of the LORDS of the TREASURY, WEDNESDAY, 18th NEXT MONTH, (Oct.) ALL LOT TERIES, END FOR EVER. CAR ROLL, Contr ac t or , so li c i ts pu bli c favour for a Firewell venture in this Last and Only Lottery, that will ever be submitted, embracing, in magnitude and number, a greater display of Capitals than were ever known before : Being, SIX PRIZES of £30,000 ! No Blanks ! Every Ticket a Prize ! forming the unequalled aggregate of 389,000/. ! All in One Day ! WEDNESDAY, 18th of Next Month (October), then All Lotteries End for Ever ! Cm nhill Tickets and Shares are Selling by CARROLL, Contractor, 19, ; 7, Charing-Cross ; and 26, Oxford-street, where he Sold within a short period, FOUR ,Prizes 0f..........£30,000 FOUR 20,000 ! And other Capitals in former Lotteriey, exceeding A MILLION STERLING ! V ICTU A L LING-OFFICE, CH ATH A5l. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By BENJAMIN SEATON, On - s - ortanax,Oct. 3, 1826, and Two following Days, at El even ' for'Twelve o'Clock St Noon, on the Premises, Agent Victual ler's House, DART' of the Genuine HOUSEHOLD FUR. ° NIT uP.E, and BOOKS, a high-bred COB GELDING, Two SETTARS, and an excellent GUN, variety of very fine 4 . II GE„ONS, foreign-b re d FOWLS, F ancy FOWLS o f t h e Ban "m nr° o 4, CANARIES, an d COCKATOO ; a b eau tif u l Col la etion 'or Foreign and other STUFFED BIRDS in glass cams, ? air cf very fine ARMADILLOES, an d ot h er e ff ects , b e l ong i ng TI ENRY STOKES, Esti. The Goods may be viewed the day before and mornings of If4 ale; and Catalogues had of the Auctioneer, 50, Chatham, three thiy& before the Sale. IMPERIAL LIFE INSURANCE OFFICE, SUN-COURT, (1 "..—.40411/LI., and Sr. JAMES'S-STREET. Capital ,Z 750,000. DIRECTORS. Sir Charles Pviee, Bart., Chairman. Charles ilaWay, E, 41 . ALP. Deputy Chairman. Grant Allan, % wt. Richard Lee, Besl• George. Brovom, Daniel Mildred, Esq. Cornelius; l auller, Esq. John Baker Richards, Esq. Andrew tolvile Esq. Sir James Shaw, Bart. John kienry Efifl. Robert Slade, Eaq. Fr Esq. Henry Smith Esq. R6bert Lang, Esq. John Smith, Esq. M.P. "oars. )Rneas Berklyt EN. Charles Danvers, Esq. CONSULTING PHYSICIAN. . . U. Lidderdale, M.D. Falcon-square. Two-thirds of the profits of the Company are periodically Added to the sums' specified in the Policies effected for the whole 4 'rm of life ; at the same time the insured are protected by the deed of uttlement, and the above ample capital, from every chanc e of lose by the responsibility which attaches to those who become mutual insurers of each other. Lives insured are allow e d to pus by Sea from one part of the United Kingdom to another, and als o , i n ti me o f pe ace , to pass in King's ships and packets, or Other decked vessels, between British ports and such foreign purls as lie between Ostend and Havre de Grace, both included, without extra premium or spe cial leave'of the Directors, as is usually required. ' No extra premium is required from persona engaged in the army or navy, unless when called into actual sei No ent ra n ce money, nor fine of admission, s r v chce. Charg e d, except in the case of non-appearance. Attendance is given daily, at the Company's till Four &Gloat, where Rates and Conditions . may be bad, or of any ef the Company's Agents in the pri n cipal twos through out the kingdom: A UDI. John Horsley Palmer, Esq. By order of th e Board, SAMUEL INCA 11„ SWIFT'S PLAN TO LESSO N A SURPLUS POPLI LATIoN.—A century ago, (says the Manchester Gazette) Ireland, as it has been ever since, was a bloat wretched country. Dean Swift attributed the dittress to the nutnber of th!,.._people, and proposed a decisive remedy. In his , Modest Proposal to the Public,' he suggests, as a cure for the evil, that one hundred thousand children annually should be sold for f "d• He' thinks that their flesh would b e hi g hl y relished by t h e l an dl or d s, who, as they have already devoured mast of their parents, seem to have the best ti tle to the children.'—qAt no man talk to me,' Ovalle, of other ex (l pedients, till he bath at l eas t some gl i mpse hoPe that there will ever be some hearty and sincere 'ilitternpt to put them in practice. But, as to myself; 'tying 'leen wearied t for man ou y years with offering "min) idle, vis' (I,,i 4rin ~ lonary thoughts, and at length utterly posi t v.,...r 4 5leeces, I fortunately fell Upon this pro -461i1i Morning Register. • 4 No. 10,621. VIGO. BAY COMPANY. nfl OLD BAILEY, SEPT. 25. PRICE 7D. TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER, 26, 1826. Yesterday, a meeting of the Shareholders in.this Coin- PanY was held at the office, in Cooper's-tow, Savage gardens, Captain Dickson in the chew. The 'CHAIRMAN, previously to the commencement of Proceedings, requested that the gentleman who attended from the Morning Herald would inform hint'whether, it any error should be found in the report which he should make he would tak e u p on hi mse lf to correct i t. This was answered in the affirmative, and The CHAIRMAN said , that he had called that meeting in order to la y . before them the full exposition of every thing that had taken place with respect to the enterprise in which they had engaged. About 18 months ago he had been informed by a Gallician ghtleman, that considerable treasure was lying in vessels which had been stink in Vigo Bay. He had put into his hands a letter from a foreign gentleman, expressing much surprise that the English, who were so enterprising a people, had never attempted to raise such immense treasure, and referring him to Smollett's History zi England, from which extracts were made of a nature calculated to excite expectation. Those extracts, stated, that several millions of pieces of eight 'were in the galleons which had been sunk upwards of a century ago in the Bay. This letter he' put into the hands of eight gentlemen, upon whose judgment and honour he had the utmost reliance. He called upon the Spanish Ambassa dor, for the purpose of making a contract with him on the subject of the enterprise which he had determined to em bark in. The contract was, that half of th e recovered treasure should be gi ven to he Spanish Government. The contract had been made as publicly as possible. Amongst the thousands of Spaniards who were in London at the time, there was not one who ventured to contradict that there were immense treasures in the Bay; but there ex isted a difference of opinion as to the practicability of rais ing them. It frequently happened that, before he dis posed of the shares in that Company, he was asked what loss might be incurred, and he uniformly replied, that by the purchase of shares from him the buyer would incur no loss, in addition to that which might result from the want of success. Was this, he would ask,• ensuring success to those who' speculated ? No. He certainly never anticipated a failure, but he never spoke posi tively of success. It was the fate of the shares that they. disappointed his expectation, but was he responsible for the failure ? If he had known to a dead certainty that the treasures would be raised, he would have been a fool to sell a single share. For the purpose of arranging the plan, he went to Madrid to see the Minister, and he received the greatest encouragement from that gentleman,viho expressed a confidence that there were great treasures in the Bay. • Nobody, in fact, doubted the existence of the treasure, al though many spoke of the difficulty of getting at it.— 'One said that the divers never could get through the mud. No men could exert themselves more than the crew of the Enterprise had done, and the eight gen tlemen, who had the management of the company, were equally assiduous. In Burnett's History of England, it was stated that the Duke of Ormond requested Sir George Rooke to make an experiment to raise some of the trea sures which lay in the Bay, but the attempt was not made in consequence of the deficiency of provisions 'upon the occasion. It was • the common report in Spain, that if the Spaniards had all the treasures that were in Vigo Ai .) , , they would be the richest people-in the world. Hia.hopes became more and more elevated, and he actually consulted Captain Brown, who commanded the Enterprise., as to the sum which he should pay to the eight gentlemen who held fifty shares each, for their interest in the company. He had put an advertisement in The Times newspaper, calling together the shareholders this day, and he was now ready to answer any questions which might be put to him. Mr. STEELS requested the attention of the Meeting. The.question which now presented itself was different films that which occupied the attention of the share holders twelve months ago. It was at that time a ques tion as to the quantity of treasure.. It was now a question as to its existence. He had, as had been stated by his friend, Made research at the British Museum upon the sub ject which occupied their attention, in order to ascertain the amount, if possible, of the treasure that had been sunk. He found in Smollett that part had been raised, and that, part remained below, and he persevered 'in his inquiry upon the subject .on which the motives and conduct of his friend had been so grossly misrepresented. He knew the difference between historical . and rhetorical evidence, but he considered the following quotation from the "Oratio ad Annani Regina»s, 1703," confirmatory of the historical evi dence with which other writers had written on this sub ject—" Et cistis diffractis argentea lanzina nummosguc pet lueere per undas." He sent the original to the eight gen tlemen who were interested in the enterprise, accompanied by the following translation---" And the cases having been broken, plates of silver and coined money were seen glit tering through the waters," Mr. Steele mentioned other works, in which he met with allusions to . the treasures in Vigo Bay, but they contained no intelligence as to the quantity. The Oratio, however, by the strong expression "argentea lamina," most strongly confirmed in his mind the previous opinion of the existence of a large treasure. Mr.,MoJEw said he had had nothing whatever to do with the Vigo Bay Company. He, however, thought he might bear testimony to the documentary evidence moon this subject. kle had a book which treated of " The Fleet of Holland," and. he had met with a passage in it, mating that many millions of pi eces o f e i ght had been either taken or sunk. Several shareholders said, that th ey Were prevented from speaking,by the apprehension that their names would appem before the public : and they did not wish that it should be known that they embarked hundreds of pounds in a speculation in which there was considerable hazard.-- They, however, took care, by not mentioning each other' s names,. to avoid the danger; and finding they were not likely to be known to those who attended for. the press, spoke unreservedly. ' One of them.said, he haditirchased shares upon the authority of Smollett's History of England. He had alio en the ze e( o f a ll concerne d in the company; and never 1 a Dickson thought there *es had he, seen more marked activity. He . had - lost his n mn reys but he was sa tisfied that every exertion had beene, unle ss indeed Cap tain still sons chan ce upon exam i nat i on o f the bottom.. He knew that four or five of the directors of the company had 770 e 00/ "" f d 4 . s hare; and that one • or 60 slim . understood five or six had sold ,d us ea. He that of them had refused res. reluctantly since he returned °fr. .Capt. Dickson, he was told, sold sham Captain picks rg said, that h e never had sold a shire ultimate succes s , V: Vigo, such was his opinion • of would amts th e nature - t o h f en request e d th a t Captain Brown Captain BROWN prod the - p rocee di ngs at Vigo Bay. 12 galleons that were sunk superintended the whole t eed a e ms to the Meeting. He the tre y they Itag. They ' worked at quantity of mud out of themn the bay, and took a great consequence in them, alth • They found nothing of any art to the main -mast, treat'. , s pointed out by' the Spanish examined them from p an o Y un ( C t ie ll. : par T t h o e f w a oo sh d ip oi * the ces4in TI: Iree never being placed in a situation ti Iri en board were 28 1 : i f the vessels was ' . Was quite soft. The ' A Shareholder,--What depth did You Li:o 9 Captain B ROWN .'"••• We went dovrri 1 3 - fathoms, but we worked in ten fathoms. one ship. A shareholder—Who worked the bells ? Captain superintended tbe working of the belle. One man went down 50 times. Wel arrived at Vigo Bay on the 24th of October, and we left it on the Wu of August. A shareholder—no you know, Sir, that the bells cannot be worked in deeper than 40 feet water—that in deeper water the lungs cannot act ? Captain BROWN—I know quite the reverse. Captain DICKSON—Sir Edward Banks - assured me the bells could be worked in 60 feet water; and offered to en gage in the contract. A shareholder—To my knowledge the Spanish Govern ment Made offers of a s i m il ar ki n d . I n S pa i n t h ey were as sanguine of success as they have been in this country. Captain BROWN—If the shareholders wish to see the de tails, my log-book is open to their inspection. A shareholder—ls the thing abandoned or. mot ? Captain DicicsoNSiich cruel misrepresentations have been made with regard to the company, that I would wish to answer the shareholder privately in that respect. I should be sorry if I timught I should die without Making a strenuous effort to get at that treasure. A Solicitor to a shareholder—l understand that the means taken to accomplish the desired object have been totally linadequate. I wrote to Mr. Dickson a few questions,which I shall now repeat. I asked him whether a piece of plate had not been picked up near the place where the vessel lay, and whether he was not present when it was so fished up ; whether he did not write to the Directors, on set ting off from Madrid, stating that he had sold fifteen shares to Mr. O'Shea, at 300/. each; and whether his letter did not convey those shares in separate transfers ef 100/. each, the transfers being signed and sealed with the royal arms, to your agent in London, with direc tions to sell them at the rats of from 100/. to 150/. a share, or whatever he could get for them; and whether the said shares were not sold in the London market at from 120/. to 1304 a piece ? You admitted that you did not sell your 15 shares at 300/. per share; but that you had exc h ange d t h em f or s i lver and gold mine shares in Madrid, and that you had given directions to your agent to sell at 1201. or 130/. a share. You say that you did not sell a share after your return from Vigo Bay. No, you certainly did not,• for they were not saleable after that.. We saw this share (showing a share) which formerly be longed to you in the market,and were completely staggered to 'see it after your high expectations of !success. It was taken to the directors, and they' were thunderstruck. It is my; opinion, gentlemen, that waought to form a Committee to inquire into the pertieulars of the whole transaction. Mr. Dickson, it is said, has put many thousands into his pocket by the CoMpany, and it is very easy to get up a plausible story. Captain DICKSON—I can have no o bj ect i on to a .Com mittee. With respect to those questions, it is easy to an swer them. The man who, as the worthy gentleman says, fished up the plate, is below stairs, and will, if called up, describe what took place fully, as he went down in a bell. I was not on or near the spot at the time. Captain BROWN—Upwards of a dozen pieces of plate were picked up at different times in the Bay. Captain Dloneots-,-..Vott 'poke of shares wile?! I autd in Madrid: I was frequently solicited there to sell some lof my shares, and repeatedly 'eeltoed. A gentlemasit• however, having otkred mu three sinarib in .a Madrid Gold and Silver Company for one of mine, I let him have 17 shares at that rate, for I knew that company weuki get up. I valued mine at 3001. each, and his at 1004, and to my surprise I found afterwards that they were in the mar ket. I got them back, with the exception of a few, for which I received 300/. eac h. ,I t h as b een said that a prospectus was issued ; that was not the fact; I never saw such a thing as a prospectus, and I most solemnly de clare that I never ordered a single share to be sold in the Stock. Exchange. A shareholder (pointing to the share)—This was your share, and it appears that you transferred it to. Mr. O'Shea, for the consideration of 3001.. Now you received no such thing. We took 50 tons of wood out of Captain DICKSON—I have already stated that 'received shares to that amount in a gold and silver mining company. It is an every-day transaction. Captain BROWN said that he had heard it asserted that the means used in the Bay were not adequate. He most plumply contradicted that assertion. At this moment Mr. Polhill, the unsuccessful candi date for Southwark, and Mr. Chambers, the police magis trate, entered the room. Mr. Pout4.4-1t appears from this share that Mr. O'Shea gave to Captain Dickson 300!. for it. Now he has done nothing of the kind. The statement here that he did, induced my friend Mr. Chambers to purchase. Captain DICKSON here explained the nature of the ex change he had made, as he had done before. Mr. CIIAMOEILS—IIere is a paper which states that Mr. Dickson received 300/. for a share. This sum he has not received, and it therefore seems to be a false pretence. If he has not received that money, the share gets into the market, and the perscm who buys it is swindled out of his money. J consider you in a perilous state. Captain DtpxsoN—Do not use any more of this lan guage, Sir, whoever you are. Mr. CHAMMERII--I ask, as a magistrate, whether this is not a false pretence calculated to give to the shares a false value. Mr. pautiLL--1 have seen enough to convince me that I must have my money back. Mr. CHAMBERS... 4 am of opinion that a ease of conspi racy to defraud may be made out. Captain Dicxsos—l'll not he bullied by you, who ever you are. Magistrate or not, you have no claim to the character of a gentleman • and if I hear any more of this house at ungentlemanly language, order you out o f my once. Mr. ettAsinEn4-1 say this is a false token under the Art of Parliament. Captain It is false. You are t h e only per son who has acted unlike I gentleman ; but you shall not bully here. Mr. Pot money ret urn , attlx.—T shall expect to see my ed.—(L ou d l aughter.) Captain DieusoN.—l should be glad to know, Sir, whether, if you had sold your shares at 1,000/. eachou would ha ve g i ven me the difference.—(A l aug h , y After a great deal of conversation upon the ) subject of Committee, a Conittee, one was appoint e d to investigate the affairs of the Company, &c. &c, and the Meeting separated, It is very much to the honour of th e f emale sex, at least such part of it as are employed in t ra d es or Milli h factures of any d escr i pt i on , th a t t h ey never combine a oainst their emp l oyers, in order to obtain higer c, wage s, or to impos e regulations of any kind. —Stock port Advertiser, SYMPTOM OP Ravi VING ENTEICIPRISF,-.A cot ton work in Itenfrewshire, which WU Vtilued by corn )etent rersons, in July last, at 11,000/. , was exposed is coup' on nurstiay, at 1 - matey, at the upset ince of 11,500/., and after a keen competition, was Lnocked down at 11,050/.—Paisley Advertiser. NEW COURT. The CosmoN SERGEANT sat for a short time in the morning, to dispose of the few remaining trials; after which, The REconnErt Caine into Court, and (the whole of the convicts having, been called up for judgment) passed the following sentences :-- DEATII—John Shales and John for returning from transportation : J a m es Fi e ld, Wm. William s, ohnson, dies Forbes, Joseph Cross, and Satimel Meneth, for horse stealing; James Spencer, George Morgan, and Charles Haycraft, for burglary; John Buckhurst, Wm. Johnson, John Wm. Wilson, Thomas Walker, Wm. Johnion, Eliza beth Allender, Ann Allender, Thomas Powell, Samuel Percevall, and Edward Elliott, for housebreaking; Benj i Robinson, George Mullins, Wm. A rt h ur , Wm. Ipomas, John Hayes, Samuel Mappin, Car o li ne Fittallen, Mai y Hastings, aroline. Hopper, Charles 'Curry, J. Willia/AA; T. Slack, Joseph Rayne, Daniel Lynch, and Wm. Haynes; for stealing in a dwelling-house; Wrn. Waters, \V. Andrews, John .King, Catherine Parmenter, Sarah Jarvis, Henry Dunn (judgm en t respited),George Hough/ ton, James Boyce, Robert King, John Robinson, George Nicholls, James Goulby, and John Playdell, for highway robbery. I Total sentenced to death Transportation for life Ditto, 14 years Ditto, : ? years Imprisonment and hard labour for 2 years 47 5)6 Ditto, 12 months Ditto, 6 months To various other periods of imprisonment, from t lace months to 14 days, including also thme who were sentenced to be privately whipped and discharged Total sentenced 7 11P 13e ' s P i i d ted es t t i h il e i s ie e, lt th B ;e 6 w m ere upwards of 60 sentenced at the close of their respective trials. Indeed, it seems strange that this practice should not be generally followed.• Nothing can tend more to produce a salutary impression on those who have heard the trials than to hear of punish ment awarded, which they are certain will in all human probability 'be carried into effect. Punishment is thus, viewed in that light by which it, is productive of the greatest good, the almost certain and immediate conse queneeof crime. On the other hand, nothing detracts more from the deep respect with which the administration 'of justice in our c r imi na l court i s i n genera l h e ld, t h an t h e sight of a vast multitude of human beings brought to gether in a crowded court, for the purpose of receiving sentence, some of loss of life, others privation of liberty to various degrees of length, and all to some measure of .stif tering more or less severe. The spectator, in such instances, is in general ignorant of the details of each particular cue, and his horror of the individual crime is changed to com miseration for the fate of the mass of wretched beings before him, on whom he sees the law thus pouring forth its vengeance by wholesale. The man who is present at the trial of a common thief, and who hears the esta blishment of his guilt by the verdict of a jury, fol lowed by a sentence of transportation, is thus taught to respect those laws, which, by removing a dangerous mem ! i ) i e i T r e o r f :4 4 ; i i e l It society, be : f ir f ee ling e litgigrefaotrertlsteerwitr to property. Far when he hears set). itenee* of transphrtation for life, or more limited periods, passed on upwards of 100 of his fellow men en mesas, of ' whose crimes he hears lillilii..6 oast,. 4.4)... that they had been convicted of " felony" or " grand lareetl." Surely the risk of lessening - the respect for the administration of our criminal law in this manner, might be easily avoided by having sentence passed on each individual at the close of his trial. The only objection to this practice that we have heard of, is, that the City of London claims the pri vilege of passing sentence by the mouth of its Recorder on all criminals convicted within its jurisdiction. The ci tizens, no doubt, ought to be very, tenacious of their rights; but we apprehend that good sense would teach them not to object to the relinquishment of a privilege (if it be one), from which they can derive no earthly advantage, and which is itself absurd and inconvenient. Another subject deserving of notice, connected with the close of these ses sions, is the manner of passing sentence of death. LOVE AND SUICIDE. " STUTGARD, Snrv. 14.—0 n the 9th, a young man and woman arrived here by a coach from Cerlsruhe and alighted at one of our inn s . Th ey passe d t h e whole of the next day here and at Carlstadt, and ordered the coach man to be ready on the afternoon of the 11th. The coach- man having waited more than an' hour,.Went up stairs to ask instructions. To the questions that he put the young man answered that he might come in. The door, however, was bolted on the inside, and barricadoed also with a chest of drawers. After he had got in through anotheeroom, the young woman was found lying insensible on the bed, bathed in her blood--qtnd the young man was leaning against the wall of the apartment, with blood stream ,ing from his mouth. They had attempted (it would ap pear) to commit suicide, and had put a number of hail shot into two small pocket pistols for that purpose ; but the charge was so weak that most of the shot remained in a barrel. The unfortunate pair were carried to the Hospital. The young woman is severely wounded; she can with difficulty utter some unintelligible words, 'and is considered in a< very dangeroua state. The condition of the young man is more favourable, and he speaks distinctly. " The following are the Rarticulars which have come: to our knowledge :—The young man's name is I*4- 7 : He is 24 years of age. Was born at L—, in the Grand Duchy of an d She was born at S—, in Alsace. The motives which lle yoiing ac i t v e o d n:a a n S 's ug name is at isCtehreoltlinoes pital t of Carlsnrinduced them to 'attempt - suicide are hut imperfectly known. They left Carlsruhe on the Eith, and when here they did not live in a very economical manner, although they had no money, net even sufficient to pay their bill. ' NEW PRISON, CLERKENWELL.--It appears, by a return from the books of . the keeper of this pion, that the Wd number of prisoners committed to his custody, - within the hot ttehrr i:t al month,number of prisoners committed from Jane to & mem ber &salmi, 1826 ... 287 Discharged by proclamation ... Total number going out of prison in ons flay SIIICIPX.—On Saturday an Inquest wax held at the o re h o d House, Poplar, before J. W. Unwin, on the body of Sarah Bolton, who, in a fit of mental c ln meat, an end to her e x i s t ence b y hinging. Verdict-- , The Rev. B. Hall, now pr eac hi ng at the Baptist ege , insanity.,, Chapel at Cambridge, is quite the rage—all ranks and degrees flock to hear him.--Lincoln Mercurry. l'ratle here continues steadily though slowly to "m- prove. Several of the mills are beginning to work full time ; thc demand for calicoes still increases,: and MU advance of from 3d. to 6d. a piece has been obta ined in the better description of goods within the last ten days,..-Stockpoil PERTH, Seer. 21. Duncan Clark, writer in Perth, waa put to the hart yawl& Of the murder of a child, by placing it in a desk, where it was 501. located. An objection to the relevancy of part of the indictment being overruled, Ann Cameron (General Stewart of Garth was sworn inter preter, as the witness could not speak English), know s Ch r i s ti an Cameron in Earlsdyke. Knows she was delivered of a child on a Saturday morning in the end of harvest 1826. In the morn ing, witness was sent for, and went to Christian Cameron's house before day-light ; believe, it was about two o'cloek, No midwife was present, but the child was stately delivered. The child was properly attended to after delivery ; was a stout lutalthy Knows Isabel Cameron; she was present shout the time of the delivery. Witness attended to the child. Margaret M'Nab was there. The child was dressed in a petticoat, a printed frock, and a flannel band was put round it. A little punch was glyt t o to it. Witness remained at Christian Cameron's tilt the child was dreneo and put in order. She then came to Perth with the child to give* it to the father. Margaret fiPNab and Isabel Cameron time with her, before breakfast. They went to the prisouer's house, which is up a stair in a close in the High Street. Margaret NPNah went in first. Witness and Isabel Cameron followed, and found the prisoner in his writing room. They told him they brought the child to him as the father, at the desire of the mother. He desired them to go home and take away the child; they refused, and desired prisoner to find a nurse. lie went out to search for one ; be was not long out. On returning he said he could find none. Witness was unwilling to go away till he found a nurse. Prisoner went out, and on his return said he had found one. He wished one of them to go with him to the woman he had got es nurse. , Witness and the others re fused to go unless they all went. Prisoner went out se 'mei times. After this he desired them to, ge away and have the child. They were unwilling to go till some witnees came to see they had left the child there. Prisoner went out and brought in Robert Ritchie AS a witness. Prisoner , then wanted to keen the' child ; he said the nurse was coming and would be there in halt' an hour. He acknowledged the child to be his, in presence of Ritchie. They then all went to prisoner's bed-room. Prisoner took the child and laid it on the hed ; he put the bed clothes properly over it so far as witness saw.—They then all went away into Mrs. M'Leod's house at the bottom of the stair. Witness had charge of the child at the time. it wee a healthy female child. They went into M'Leod's house to see if a mule came. M. M'Leod was looking out at the door to bee if the nurse came. Witneis saw prisoner ge out two of three times while they remained in M'Leod's house. Did not sea him carry ing any thing : saw no person with him. They were " thinking long" that no woman was coming to pri soner's house. APNah went out once when the prisoner passed, and when she returned said she thought the prisoner had some ' thing in his hand. She then went up to the prisoner's to lee if the child was quiet. She came back, and said she had seen the ehild. They then went to the stair, but nobody went up : they wanted a man to :go with them. James Halley came an d wen t in with 111‘Nalt and witness to prisoner's house. They did not find the 'Child : the prisoner was in the house. They asked the prisoner for the child. He said be had sent it to a nurse at Bridgend. Halley, the primoner, and another man, went to see the child. The third man was David Garrick. This was about an hour after they had left the child. Halley and the other man were absent a short time only. They came back to the house. They said they had not found the child. Witness then left the others and saw prisoner on his way horns was not near him : did not see him again till it was late. In the even ing she went with her brother's wife to the Fiscal, then to the SherifG .Dore not know what passed as they were speaking English. She and sonic others went to the prisoaer's house. The prisoner came -down stairs as they were in the close. Nothing passed between them. Went back to the prisoner's house on Monday. Saw the child lying on the leaf of the desk, which wa s open.--Bailie Luke was there ; cannot swear it was the pens child. The dress was the same. The child was dud. Lord Grum summed up the evidence with his usual perspi cuity, when the Jury returned a verdict, finding, by a pinrality of voices, the prisoner Guilty, at the same time strongly recom mending him to mercy. On hearing the verdict the prisoner fainted. Lord GlLLuts then sentenced the prisoner to be executed, eb Perth, on Friday the 3d November, and that his body should be given for dissection. MURDER-MANIA. "A few days before we set out on our journey into the iiterior of the country," sari M. If net, Bishop of A vrtui. elms, in his travels through Sweden, "a strange adventure took place at Stockholm. A. young man, w h o was very e asy in his circumstances, and whose conduct had always appeared very regular, in passing by a shop in the middle of the day, seized a little child that WAS playing before the poor, and cut its throat with a large knife he had con.. cealed about him for the purpose. Ile was instantly ar. rested and taken before the magistrate, who interrogated him as to the motives that had inducts' him to perpetrates so horrible a crime. Sir, replied he I confess my guilt, and acknowledge that I deserve to die. Far from seeking to justify my conduct, or to obtain pardon, I should think you did me an act of injustice, were y ou no t to sentence me to punishment . I have deeply considered the subject of life and death ; the first appears to me a source of crime and misery —the second a state of innocent., and peace. After mature reflection, seeing that the commistion of some serious offence was the surest way of attaining the end I aimed at, I made nkt my mind to the act I have committed, as the least injurious, and the most excusable. I have killed a child at the age of innocence, and have thus insured its salvation. I have lightened the burden of his father who is loaded with a numerous family, and with very little means to provide for their, subsistence.-- I, at the same time am conscious of the full extent of my guilt ; but I trust that the punishment I expect to receive through you, and the manner in which I shall be prepared to meetit, will obtain pardon from my God. On being led out to the scaffold, he advanced with an air of Bois. tied resignetion ; and underwent the execution of his seri ,tence with a firmness and joy that astonished the attendant multitude," A. similar kind of insanity seems at this nine to be prevalent in France. M. 'lathier, the head physi cian of the hospital at Amiens, and the author of several very able works, lately made a communication to ( hi Academy of Medieine in Paris, for the aecersPY of which he personally vouched. A woman, who mil br-a!, recently ., delivered, hearing people talk of the .although with great tier-mania. She struggled difficulty, against' the desire 4JI P :lately committed a horrible .murder) felt pursues' her; but at be able much longer to arts semen with confessed tier feelings to her husband, who e tar to be confined ; and she is not * yet s o l f " t i l l im t urder committed by Hen riettats Cornier had been published, he had r ece i ve d i nto hie. private mad-house six or seven women, who had been attacked by a similar complaint—One of the member* of the Academy made * communication of the Rama kind. — At Guyac, to Languedoc, a woman, hearing a narrative of Cornier': crime, also became afflicted with-. murder-tntiolas and* conc e i ve d the p ro j ect o f killi ng one of her own Ail dren, Forxhat purpose, she provided herself with a rator which sle carried a b out h er, coneealed, for some time, poi n t A committing the murder, she kit a B u t, at the very l in ipr mind; and sh e f oun d no other weY o waiting 'or a fav oura bl e opportun i ty . f ,Pre,ven!lng frightful inclination, violent struggle the possibili t y o f g i v i ng way to her j . ma d, an d it was claret' that the tlan by ailing for help. nid i She h 'y r " Another ' member &- thought necessary nee similar to those which had given rise to an i A lady of very high lank, have been already I;lf . 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